PKG issue on PPC

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 02/22/14 17:08, Samantha Michelle Smith wrote:
>   <http://www.facebook.com/njgrind>Let me preface this by saying if I've
> messaged the wrong list for an issue with PKGNG on the 32 bit PPC port of
> FreeBSD, sorry!
>
> I've got a FreeBSD 9.0 powerpc install running on an old Apple PowerBook G4.
> The OS itself functions beautifully (even though it's certainly due to make
> the jump to 10 like my x64 servers) however after upgrading from pkg_*
> tools to pkg, it is unable to do...well, anything.
> I checked the main server that my usual pkg config makes a call to and it
> seems it only hosts x86 and x86_64 binaries.
> Does pkg ONLY support x86, or am I just too stupid to find a server hosting
> the PPC 32bit binaries?
>
> I've spent a few hours scouring google and mailing lists to no avail.
> While ports are an obvious solution to my conundrum, I'd rather not have to
> build everything by source on this slow piece of machinery.
>
> If there's a solution available or in the works, I'd be very happy to know
> about it.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

We're currently rebuilding the PPC build cluster, so there is a bit of a 
drought of PPC packages. Hopefully it will be back up soon, but, in the 
mean time, source builds are required, unfortunately.
-Nathan